Alex Cobb
3079 Biological Laboratories
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
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e-mail: acobb[at]oeb.harvard.edu
Tel.: +1 617 496 3580
Fax.: +1 617 496 5854
Research
Rattan hydraulics Twining Smilax Vascular anatomy Physiology microTome
Education
The Evergreen State College
Harvard University
BA, 1988
and work with
Nalini Nadkarni
PhD candidate, 2000-present
under
N.M. Holbrook
Publications
  • Lee Y.F. and A.R. Cobb. 2004. Rattan plantations, intercropping and use of rattan in multicropping systems. In: Rattan: A state-of-the-art review. International Network of Bamboo and Rattan. In press.
  • Cobb, A.R., N.M. Nadkarni, G.A. Ramsey, and A.J. Svoboda. 2001. Recolonization of bigleaf maple branches following experimental disturbance. Canadian Journal of Botany 79(1):1-8.
  • Nadkarni, N.M., A.R. Cobb, and R. Solano. 2000. Interception and retention of macroscopic bryophyte fragments by branch substrates in a tropical cloud forest: an experimental and demographic approach. Oecologia 122(1):60-65.
Currently supported by the IGERT Biomechanics program